Mary Douglas Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
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It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
